Spare

2023 - 1 - 5

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Factbox: Highlights from Prince Harry's memoir 'Spare' (Reuters)

A Spanish-language version of Prince Harry's memoir "Spare" was being sold in book stores in Spain on Thursday ahead of its official launch date.

He recounts telling his father about his injuries at a dinner on the eve of William´s wedding. I was a 17-year-old boy ready to try anything that altered the pre-established order," he writes. Harry says the idea is absurd, given that his mother did not meet Hewitt until long after he was born. He says he refused William's challenge to hit back and that his brother later apologised over the incident. Harry says he and Prince William had asked their father not to marry Camilla Parker-Bowles, who is now Britain's queen consort. Harry says his brother William, now heir to the British throne, knocked him to the floor during a 2019 argument at his London home over Harry's American wife Meghan.

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Prince Harry says Prince William physically attacked him in new ... (Globalnews.ca)

A report from The Guardian, which obtained an advance copy of Prince Harry's memoir, says Harry writes about being assaulted by his older brother William.

Harry said William [broke a pact](https://globalnews.ca/news/9353952/prince-harry-meghan-markle-netflix-documentary-volume-2-moments-netflix/) between the two brothers, where they both swore they would never allow their press offices to trade negative stories about each other. [Harry & Meghan](https://globalnews.ca/tag/harry-and-meghan-documentary/), Harry claimed [William screamed at him](https://globalnews.ca/news/9351071/prince-harry-prince-william-screamed-netflix-documentary/) during a family meeting. for the first time in 2021 after stepping back as a working royal. Harry says he had “scrapes and bruises” as a result of the tussle. Reuters and other media outlets have also seen the book, reporting that they were [able to obtain copies in Spain](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/prince-harrys-book-sold-ahead-official-launch-date-spain-2023-01-05/). “I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.” Nazi uniform, they said,” Harry writes. The confrontation escalated until William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … Markle, 41, talked about wanting to end her life as she struggled to cope with toxic press coverage. [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/04/prince-harry-william-physical-attack-2019-meghan-spare-book) and [Page Six](https://pagesix.com/2023/01/04/prince-harry-claims-william-and-kate-middleton-told-him-to-buy-nazi-costume/) reports are the latest in a series of blows to the British Royal Family at the hands of the [Duke and Duchess of Sussex](https://sussexroyal.com/). The U.K. [William knocked him to the floor](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/04/prince-harry-william-physical-attack-2019-meghan-spare-book) after calling Markle “difficult,” “abrasive” and “rude.”

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Prince Harry makes series of sensational claims in new memoir (BBC News)

Harry claims William physically attacked him, and says he urged his father not to marry Camilla.

Prince Harry's account of a conversation he says he had with his late mother is short, the Guardian says. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out." "You're living the life she wanted for you." So far there's a tone of unresolved grief, grievance and accusation in Prince Harry's claims. It's intensely personal too, about his closest family, brother, step-mother, sister-in-law, father. Reuters news agency has also seen the Spanish version.

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Prince Harry Memoir 'Spare': All the Biggest Revelations (Rolling Stone)

Prince Harry opens up about a fight with Prince William and Meghan Markle, along with sharing details about his time in combat in Afghanistan.

He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor,” recounts Harry in the book, per The Guardian. In another startling revelation, Harry’s penis, or “todger,” was frostbitten after he made an expedition to the North Pole in 2011. “While the ears and cheeks were already healing, the todger wasn’t. And after he tried on the outfit in front of him, “They both howled. “It came from somewhere deep inside, somewhere that needed to be excavated, and it was obvious that I could use some help with the job,” Harry explained. She was terribly sad,” Harry said about the encounter. Remember when Prince Harry was on the cover of The Sun for wearing a Nazi uniform? [Meghan Markle](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/meghan-markle/), he opened up about a particularly difficult time in their relationship. As interest surrounding Harry, his upbringing, and his ever-evolving relationship with his family is at an all-time high, snippets from the [memoir](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/memoir/) have already started making headlines in the days leading up to the release. [according to Sky News](https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=74968X1525087&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.sky.com%2Fstory%2Fprince-harry-book-live-updates-spanish-version-of-spare-mistakenly-put-on-sale-and-sky-news-has-a-copy-12780329&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.townandcountrymag.com%2Fsociety%2Ftradition%2Fa42408461%2Fprince-harry-killed-25-people-in-afghanistan%2F&xs=1&xcust=%5Butm_source%7C%5Butm_campaign%7C%5Butm_medium%7C%5Bgclid%7C%5Bmsclkid%7C%5Bfbclid%7C%5Brefdomain%7Cwww.google.com%5Bcontent_id%7C3814c501-ac7f-494f-b1ba-e19b0591e1d4%5Bcontent_product_id%7C7585db78-9ccf-4860-bda1-bf4215f0d0a6%5Bproduct_retailer_id%7Cea4d3ebf-1d01-4b22-a07e-71861875359a%5Blt%7C). (During his ten years in the British military, he visited Afghanistan twice.) Harry is also planning to give televised interviews on ITV, 60 Minutes, and the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, in the coming days.

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Prince Harry is not the first 'spare' to stir up royal unrest (The Globe and Mail)

The 15th-century version of a prince's Netflix documentary or tell-all autobiography was to pick up a battle axe and fight his older brother in open ...

He was moved to the bottom of the Royal Family website, below Harry and Meghan, proof that his disgrace is complete. While we can forgive the youthful indiscretions of a prince who lost his mother when he was 12, it is harder to stomach the petulant whining of a privileged 38-year-old detailing the misery of being trapped in a palace, with a coronet that pinched, and people who were mean to him and his wife. Pornographic pamphlets such as The Royal Dildo and The Uterine Furors of Marie Antoinette fuelled public hatred of the queen and helped push the nation toward revolution and the king and queen to the guillotine. He showed up at a costume party dressed as a Nazi, got in a scuffle with a photographer outside a London nightclub, was photographed butt naked in Las Vegas playing strip billiards, and has admitted to abusing drugs and alcohol. An outraged husband found Henry, Duke of Cumberland, in flagrante delicto with his wife, sued the prince for adultery, and won damages worth millions of dollars in today’s money. Both the princess and her husband had countless love affairs and divorced in 1978. Despite complaints from the church about Philippe’s behaviour, his older brother, Louis XIV, and the queen mother encouraged both his cross-dressing and his homosexual love affairs in the belief that they would render him incapable of leadership. Gaston secretly married the sister of Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, a fierce enemy of Louis, knowing his brother would not grant him permission. Louis XIII’s brother and heir, Gaston, demanded his older brother share power with him as soon as he turned 18 in 1626. Three hundred years before these paragons of brotherly love, John, the younger brother and heir of Richard the Lionheart, also simmered with bitterness and envy. Finally, in 1478, Edward felt he had no choice but to execute the traitor. Harry is not the first spare to stir up royal unrest; indeed, the tradition is almost as old as the monarchy itself.

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The biggest bombshells coming out of Prince Harry's memoir, Spare (The Globe and Mail)

The much-awaited memoir details The Duke of Sussex's complicated relationship with Prince William and King Charles, the death of his mother Diana, ...

Harry writes that he joked that the grass was like his head – bald with patches. Harry says that he woke up to 32 missed calls when Prince Phillip died in April, 2021. Harry describes meeting a woman with “powers” who said she could feel the spirit of Diana, Princess of Wales. He writes: “That’s why when the question came, Willy and I promised our father that we would welcome Camilla to the family. When I found myself plunged in the heat and confusion of combat I didn’t think of those 25 as people. It gave me the impression he was in shock,” the Duke writes, according to Harry, who was 12 at the time, writes that the then-Prince Charles sat on the edge of his bed and said: “My dear son, mum has had a car accident. He later apologized and has since called the scandal “one of the biggest mistakes in my life.” I was a 17-year-old boy ready to try anything that altered the pre-established order,” he writes, according to an excerpt released by Reuters. [announced](https://global.penguinrandomhouse.com/announcements/prince-harry-the-duke-of-sussex-will-publish-a-literary-memoir-with-penguin-random-house-globally-in-late-2022/) that it would publish an “intimate and heartfelt” memoir by the Duke of Sussex. He was questioned about the quote in a Good Morning America interview and said: “There has always been this competition between us, weirdly. In the book, Harry says the physical altercation with William took place at Harry’s London home.

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How to Get Your Hands on Prince Harry's Explosive Memoir, Spare (Esquire.com)

Now, for the sake of myself—and all of you watching far too much of The Crown—it's time to pick up a book. On January 10, Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, will ...

I’ve worn many hats over the years, both literally and figuratively, and my hope is that in telling my story—the highs and lows, the mistakes, the lessons learned—I can help show that no matter where we come from we have more in common than we think.” The rest of Spare is said to have even more shocking passages about Prince Harry’s life story. [The Crown](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a34757608/the-crown-season-5/)—it's time to pick up a book. “He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. In an excerpt of the book, obtained by On January 10, Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, will release his memoir, [Spare](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a41790242/everything-we-know-prince-harry-memoir/).

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The 9 Biggest Revelations From Prince Harry's Memoir, 'Spare' (Cosmopolitan.com)

Prince Harry's new book 'Spare' details a physical fight with William, drama between Kate and Meghan, meeting his "wicked stepmother," the list goes ON.

Apparently, William (whom [Harry calls his “archnemesis”](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a42405028/prince-harry-prince-william-arch-nemesis/) elsewhere) called Meghan “difficult,” “rude,” and “abrasive.” And after Harry peaced out to the kitchen to get his brother some water, he said this happened: It was becoming more of an issue by the day.” Fear not, he went to a doctor to get the situation looked at post-wedding. “She liked horses, quite a lot, and treated me unlike a young stallion. [literal millions being spent on “intensive security measures”](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a42404408/prince-harry-book-leaks/) to guard [Prince Harry’s new book](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a42400137/prince-harry-fight-attack-prince-william/), it went ahead and leaked. “Pa liked telling stories, and this was one of the best in his repertoire. “He’d laugh and laugh, though it was a remarkably unfunny joke, given the rumor circulating just then that my actual father was one of Mummy’s former lovers: Major James Hewitt. "Kate, taken aback, went into her handbag and reluctantly pulled out a small tube," Harry wrote. One cause of this rumor was Major Hewitt’s flaming ginger hair, but another cause was sadism.” [Page Six](https://pagesix.com/2023/01/04/prince-harry-claims-william-and-kate-middleton-told-him-to-buy-nazi-costume/) (which also got its hands on the book), Harry called William and Kate Middleton and asked them to weigh in on his costume. The book makes clear that Meghan felt the fall-out wasn’t her fault, but it doesn’t exactly make her look very good either.” Like, for everyone worried Spare would simply rehash what Harry said in his And also [accidentally went on sale in Spain several days early](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11602143/Prince-Harrys-memoir-Spare-accidentally-goes-sale-Spain-days-official-release-date.html)?

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Prince Harry's Biggest 'Spare' Bombshells: William Fights, Drug ... (Us Weekly)

Prince Harry's memoir, 'Spare,' hits bookshelves on Tuesday, January 10 — see the biggest bombshell revelations.

Elsewhere in the book, Harry revealed that he met with a woman who “claimed to have ‘powers’” and told her during their visit that Diana was there with them. Harry later claimed that he and William argued ahead of the wedding as well, over his choice to keep his beard. When it did arrive, Harry pointed out that it would’ve been “easier to have had it sooner,” which got a cold and “clear warning” look from Kelly. “We zipped ahead, went over the lip at the tunnel’s entrance, the bump that supposedly sent Mummy’s Mercedes veering off course.” He recalled feeling like the “lip was nothing,” and the experience made him more upset. “So, while having fun, I was also at all times keeping my older brother in my sight.” While his tension with William was a big part of the book, Harry also recalled his own personal highs and lows, including drug use and the way in which he lost his virginity. The king asked that the boys not “make my final years a misery,” but Harry was left wondering if his loved ones ever really knew him. The Invictus Games founder claimed that after William called Meghan “difficult” and “rude” while at his home in 2019, the two got into a physical altercation. Harry described his April 2021 confrontation with his family as a “duel,” which took place after the group mourned the loss of Prince Philip. “I tried to explain my side of things,” he wrote about the meeting, which took place at Frogmore Gardens and was supposed to be about his royal exit. “And yet I also feared that if I got too clear, got too drunk and passed out, Willy and his mates would hold me down and shave me.” He alleged that his brother was not a fan of his beard pre-wedding, so he was ready to force it from his face. “This was all made explicitly clear to me from the start of life’s journey and regularly reinforced after.” In the book, which comes out on Tuesday, January 10, Harry revealed that the memoir’s title stemmed from the thing he was labeled as the moment he was born.

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Here are some of the major revelations from Prince Harry's leaked ... (CBS News)

Prince Harry's long-awaited memoir, "Spare," is due out next week, but some early revelations have been made public after the book was accidentally put on ...

When he tried on the Nazi costume in front of them, "they both howled," Harry says. "Of course I had been taking cocaine at that time," Harry writes in his memoir "Spare," according to Sky News. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out." He asked William and Kate for their advice, and they said to choose the Nazi outfit. Naturally, I would have preferred not to have that number on my military CV, on my mind, but by the same token, I'd have preferred to live in a world in which there was no Taliban, a world without war. Amongst the many things I learned in the Army, accountability was near the top of the list."

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